The “What I wish” talk will be really fun: – a crossover of business, leadership and life advice I’ve collected that would have saved me oh so much suffering. I’ll be collecting new advice from the audience as well.

Hope to see you. If you’re interested in pub night in Boston comment here and I’ll make sure to follow up.

i’m not sure there any substitute for suffering (in this context). i often find it’s the suffering that leads to a greater depth of understanding. like telling kids not to drive too fast or drink too much or …

I’ll be at the IDSA event (obviously). Thanks for helping set that up with BostonCHI. I think you may have done more than just help make an event happen, but perhaps you’ve helped unite two Boston design organizations, pretty cool. I’d like to try and make it to MIT at noon on the 12th, I’ll be there if work doesn’t get in the way.

Hi — I’m local in the Boston area and may make it to your CHI talk and/or social night. I’m a bit amused, because in cruising your essays page I hit your writeup on the “what you wish you’d been taught in school” which you say you gave at UW — I actually did a very similar talk at UW in 2004 as well, which I have posted in a powerpoint on my own site, “The Hiring Problem: Academic HCI vs. the Real World of Practice.” It’s, shall we say, less polished and more energetic in tone than yours, but very similar in spirit.

A Razorfish stop? We’re supposedly working with their A-team and I’ve been thoroughly unimpressed. We’re actually pulling the plug on several projects that were going to go their way with little competition and handed them to internal designers. I’m sure the Google meeting will be much more interesting. Wish I could be a fly on the wall. =)

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